| Description | Letter from Phoebe Blyth, Summerhill, Birmingham, to Emma Berry, Edinburgh, apologising for the size of her paper, reproaching her for not writing, amazed that her father has finally gone to visit Edinburgh, missing Emma's singing, hoping that she will be able to accompany her father and that they could then all travel back to Birmingham together, even though Birmingham is very dull, comments on her brothers and the loss of their company when they go courting, asking after Emma's mother, hoping that her brother William is well and behaving himself, advising her to read Elfsida, Heiress of Belgrove, as there is a character in it that she might recognise, she has read The Lady of the Lake five times, 6 March 1811
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